The Former President of Peru Denied Asylum in Uruguay
The former president of Peru, Alan Garcia, has been denied asylum in Uruguay, with the president of Uruguay stating that “We have not granted the request for asylum because in Peru the country’s three pillars of government function independently and autonomously, and especially the courts”. The former president sought asylum after being barred from leaving the country by a judge while pending investigation. Garcia has been accused of accepting bribes from the company Odebretch, who were building an electric railway in Lima. This event is correlated with several other indictments on corruption linked with Odebretch across Latin America.
Reuters has reported on this story, and they are an extremely credible source, providing the bare bones facts on all events they report on. It is important that these countries hold each other accountable for their issues that they face, as has been shown with Uruguay’s cooperation with the Peruvian government. It is extremely important that we do this, as corruption is a malady that infects is all, and we must assist each other in rooting these things out.
This event bares a resemblance to the repatriation of Chinese national Kuang Wanfang, who fled to the United States following her being ousted as a criminal of corruption. In both situations, the two sovereign nations cooperated in order to insure justice was served and those who had acted against the will of the state and purely for their own economic benifit were to see their justice be rightfully served to them.
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